Instantes de una vida en blanco y negro

Éléni, une jeune Athénienne, évoque la fin de sa liaison avec Grigoris - Grec installé à Paris - leur première rencontre, leurs retrouvailles à Barcelone, puis encore cette rupture dont elle ne parvient pas à guérir. Le veut-elle vraiment? « Ma souffrance est le dernier lien qui subsiste entre nous » écrit-elle. Cette lettre adressée à un absent n'est pas une complainte. Éléni demande aux mots de l'aider à comprendre l'amour. Les mots se montreront bienveillants : ils lui apprendront à discerner sur le visage de l'amour les traits de la poésie. « Sur le flacon tu avais...

En estas peque-as narraciones de la infancia el autor hace menci-n chusca de cada una de sus travesuras. El autor nos lleva de la mano por el Ciudad Ju]rez de anta-o y por las colonias antiguas como lo son La Chave-a, La Obrera, La Monterrey por mencionar algunas. El contar es un ejercicio de transferir, entre un tiempo y otro, experiencias propias o ajenas.

One day, in a small town in Florida, a teenager goes to the supermarket with his three-year-old brother. Everything seems normal until the child disappears. Five years later, without any discovery and the family undone, Ben decides to work at the same store where his brother disappeared. Little by little he begins to find tracks left behind by dark characters with unrecognizable features and foul odors. He can feel that something is wrong there. The store has much to tell him, so he keeps searching while missing the most important message of all. That he should have stopped looking.

The story revolves around Fortunata and Jacinta, two women of different classes who claim Juanito Santa Cruz as their husband. Juanito, the scion of a wealthy family, goes around carousing and womanizing with his friends. In one of these episodes, he is taken with Fortunata, a young woman of the lower class. This encounter ends when Juanito grows bored of Fortunata and disappears from her life leaving her pregnant. Worried about Juanito's lifestyle, his mother decides to marry him to his cousin Jacinta and arranges a series of meetings between them that end in marriage. During their...